The list of establishment officials weaponizing lawfare and pursuing destructive policies is long, but several individuals stood out ā from career bureaucrats and corrupt prosecutors to former elected officials.
Christopher Wray
The former FBI Director recently resigned to avoid being fired by incoming President Donald Trump. Wray, a Trump nominee, quickly fell out of favor with the president.
āThe resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice,ā Trump declared on Truth Social.
After the first attempted assassination of Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Wray told Congress there were āsome questionsā as to whether a ābullet or shrapnelā struck Trump. The FBI later confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that a bullet hit Trump.
WATCH: Over 8 minutes of Chris Wray being GRILLED by @mattgaetz, @RepThomasMassie, and @HawleyMO on some of the biggest controversies that have happened under his watch. pic.twitter.com/6Hniq9iCUE
ā Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 23, 2024
Wray also spearheaded the raid of Trumpās Mar-a-Lago property in 2023 over a classified documents case that has since been dismissed over special counsel Jack Smithās unlawful appointment.
āHe invaded my home ā Iām suing the country over it,ā Trump told NBCās Kristin Walker in an interview. (RELATED: Deep State Officials Opposing Tulsi Gabbardās Nomination Have Close Ties To Defense Contractors, Censorship Tools)
Wray was lambasted for how he handled the investigation into Hunter Bidenās business dealings, including refusing to admit the authenticity of Hunter Bidenās laptop.
He also testified that the FBI met with Big Tech to potentially censor content, and a former Twitter executive told the Federal Election Commission FBI agents notified Twitter that Hunter Biden might be targeted by a āRussian hacking operation.ā This was right before Twitter censored the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story.
Additionally, Wray previously refused to tell Congress how many confidential human sources (CHS) were at January 6. A report from the Department of Justiceās (DOJ) inspector general revealed there were 26 CHSs.
Merrick Garland
Attorney General Merrick Garland has overseen the surveillance of school board parents and weaponized lawfare against pro-life activists, meme makers, January 6 defendants, and Trump.
The FBI, which raided the homes of pro-life activists and reportedly punished whistleblowers, is a component within the DOJ. Garland told Congress in 2023 there are more prosecutions of pro-life activists because āit is quite easy,ā as many of the protesters are witnessed during the day.
Merrick Garland, who is hiding his bossās audiotaped interview regarding mishandling classified documents, tells Congress heās above the law. https://t.co/4HWWnvbud9
ā Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 12, 2024
Garlandās DOJ has sought harsh sentences for January 6 defendants. However, the DOJ recommended less jail time for a man who assaulted Democratic Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig than some non-violent Jan. 6 defendants.
His DOJ also threw Douglass Mackey, a pro-Trump meme-maker, in prison for āelection misinformationā while seemingly ignoring a left-wing group that sent texts to voters falsely claiming they had already voted.
Moreover, this Justice Department has uniquely weaponized a Reconstruction-era law ā the conspiracy against rights statute ā to target conservatives and heighten their sentences.
Alejandro Mayorkas
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has overseen record levels of illegal immigration at the southern border, and he was impeached by the House in February.
He was charged with āwillful and systemic refusal to comply with the lawā and ābreach of public trust,ā according to articles of impeachment.
The Biden-Harris administration lost track of āover 330,000 childrenā at the border, according to former Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf. A February 2023 New York Times report revealed at least 85,000 children in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) are missing.
BREAKING: @HawleyMO confirms Homeland Security Investigations special agents are being pulled from investigations on child trafficking and fentanyl to babysit Biden and Mayorkasā invasion at the southern border. pic.twitter.com/qMzTFRF9fd
ā Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) October 31, 2023
Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray were allegedly murdered by illegal aliens during the Biden-Harris administration. There were approximately 8.5 million migrants encounters on the southern border during the four fiscal years of the Biden-Harris administration, according to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data.
The Biden-Harris White House also launched WelcomeCorps, a refugee sponsorship program that collaborates with immigration Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). In June, the administration provided Temporary Protected Status to 300,000 Haitians, which elicited backlash after the town of Springfield, Ohio was overwhelmed with migrants. (RELATED: āWhat Changed?ā: GOP Rep Presses Mayorkas On Why He Now Uses āCrisisā To Describe Southern Border)
The next border czar, Tom Homan, told Tucker Carlson he had a āfalling-outā with Mayorkas over transgender policy in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. He said Mayorkas āorderedā him to sign a memo concerning the treatment of transgenders in ICE detention.
Mayorkas has defended the Biden administrationās border policies, although he eventually admitted the situation at the border is a ācrisis.ā
Liz Cheney
Cheney, who was Vice Chair of the House January 6 Select Committee, endorsed Harris for president and stumped for her on the campaign trail.
She previously slammed Kamala Harris as a āradical liberalā and deemed her voting record āto the left of Bernie Sanders.ā However, Cheneyās endorsement may have actually helped Trump win Michigan, a key swing state. (RELATED: āNational Securityā Officials Who Endorsed Harris Tied To Intel Agencies, Defense Contractors)
Chairman of the Committee on House Administrationās Subcommittee on Oversight, Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, published a report on January 6 that contained several ācriminal recommendationsā against Cheney.
The report, released in December, accused Cheney of colluding with Cassidy Hutchinson ā the January 6 Committeeās main witness ā without Hutchinsonās attorneyās knowledge. It also said Cheney should be investigated for āpotential criminal witness tampering.ā
āFormer Representative Liz Cheney used the January 6 Select Committee as a tool to attack President Trump, at the cost of investigative integrity and Capitol security,ā a press release stated.
Cheney also likened Trump to a ādictatorā after he accused her of being a āradical war hawkā who didnāt want to serve on the front lines. Perhaps most dishonestly, she furthered the lie that Trump wanted her to be āshotā for being too pro-war.
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Despite retiring from public office, Americans have not forgotten Fauciās zeal for draconian COVID-19 restrictions.
He admitted to Congress in January that social distancing rules āsort of just appearedā during the pandemic.
āDr. Fauci claimed that the ā6 feet apartā social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data,ā the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic tweeted.
āļøDr. Fauci claimed that the ā6 feet apartā social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data.
āIt just sort of appeared.ā
ā Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024
Fauci lamented Republicans asking him tough questions during his June testimony, and he blamed the First Amendment for being an impediment to censorship of criticism directed at him.
Two Chinese vaccine manufacturers paid royalties to Fauciās former agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) during the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, records from Open the Books show.
A public health watchdog launched a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for allegedly refusing to release communications concerning Fauciās potential vaccine royalties.
Fauci has also come under fire for gruesome animal experiments that his former agency funded.
The White Coat Waste Project (WCWP) revealedĀ in 2024 that the Biden administration knew Fauciās agency lied to cover up cruel, taxpayer funded experiments of beagles, the Daily Caller originally reported.Ā (EXCLUSIVE: Tucker Carlson Network Teams Up With Award-Winning Director For New Film Exposing Fauci)
Honorable Mentions: Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg
Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, was a key player in the lawfare attacks against Trump.
However, her efforts raised eyebrows after attorneys for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman alleged that Willis was having a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor, Nathan Wade.
Attorney Ashleigh Merchant filed a motion in January alleging that Willis gained financial benefits from appointing Wade. The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled in December that Willis was disqualified from prosecuting her case against the incoming president.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neelyās death. Penny faced potentially 15 years in prison.
When Bragg was not indicting a veteran who protected subway passengers from an erratic homeless man, he was prosecuting Trump. Bragg convicted Trump on 34 felony counts pertaining to allegations that he falsified New York business records to ācorrupt the 2016 election.ā
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com